Correlate .NET logger trace id with active span (th-de3805) - #170
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The .NET logger seeded traceId with a fabricated uuid (== correlationId) at
construction. When a log is emitted inside an active distributed trace, stamp
the real W3C trace/span id from System.Diagnostics.Activity.Current instead, so
CloudWatch JSON logs correlate to the trace. Captured at emit time — the span is
live at the log call, not necessarily when the logger was created. Falls back to
the prior traceId (fabricated uuid, no spanId) when no W3C activity is in scope.
- SmooLogger.Emit: override traceId + add spanId from Activity.Current (W3C only).
- New ContextKey.SpanId ("spanId").
- Depends only on the BCL diagnostics API (Activity) — no @smooai/observability
dependency (would be circular). Logger lines already flow through the ForwardTo
ILogger the obs provider hooks, so an active obs provider turns them into OTLP
log records with matching ids.
Tests prove a log inside an active Activity carries the span's trace/span id, and
that it falls back to the correlation uuid with no activity.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01S2bM94GAnVjYSSv1x7HKRB
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Problem
The .NET logger seeded
traceIdwith a fabricated uuid (equal tocorrelationId) at construction. When a log is emitted inside an active distributed trace, the JSON logs (CloudWatch) did not carry the real trace id, so they couldn't be correlated to the trace.Solution
At emit time, when an active W3C
System.Diagnostics.Activityis in scope, stamp the entry'straceId(and a newspanId) with the span's real W3C ids. Captured at emit time, not construction — the span is live at the log call, not necessarily when the logger was created. Falls back to the prior behavior (fabricated uuidtraceId, nospanId) when no W3C activity is active.SmooLogger.Emit: overridetraceId+ addspanIdfromActivity.Current(W3C format only).ContextKey.SpanId("spanId").Activity) — not on@smooai/observability(that would be circular). Logger lines already flow through theForwardToILoggerthe obs provider hooks, so when the observability OTel logging provider is active a logger line becomes an OTLP log record carrying the same ids.Verification
Log_Within_Active_Activity_Carries_Real_TraceAndSpanIdstarts a realActivitySourcespan, logs, parses the JSON output, and assertstraceId/spanIdequalactivity.TraceId/SpanIdhex.Log_Without_Activity_Falls_Back_To_Correlation_Uuidasserts the fallback (traceId == correlationId, no spanId).dotnet build(net8/9/10, warnings-as-errors),dotnet test(35 passed, 2 new), anddotnet format --verify-no-changesall green in Release.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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